escape vs lifeline

escape

noun
  • A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. 

  • Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. 

  • escape key 

  • A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. 

  • A successful shot from a snooker position. 

  • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. 

  • The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). 

  • Something that has escaped; an escapee. 

  • An apophyge. 

verb
  • To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. 

  • To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. 

  • To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys. 

  • To get free; to free oneself. 

  • To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. 

  • To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. 

lifeline

noun
  • A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies. 

  • A particular crease in the palm. 

  • A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point. 

  • A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling. 

  • System or structure of vital importance to a community. 

  • A source of salvation in a crisis. 

  • On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas. 

How often have the words escape and lifeline occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )